U.S. buys back Stinger missiles in Afghanistan
STINGER BUY-BACK: After supplying hundreds of shoulder-mounted Stinger surface-to-air missiles in the 1980s to Afghans fighting the Soviets, the U.S. is now involved in a "buy-back" scheme to reacquire the missiles. "With respect to Afghanistan, there have been two pieces to the arms buyback,"...
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